I wanted to be creative again and I missed it. I mean I’m going to be 42 next week and I realized I hadn’t drawn or painted anything in like 20 years. Life just got busy and took that away from me. I used to love drawing, I used to love making webcomics or little zines for friends and what have you. I just wanted a hobby again that didn’t involve gaming or anything like that.
So I just started trying again and didn’t like what I was making. I thought “I swore I was better than this” so I decided to pick up a cheap Wacom One (the small basic one) and challenge myself to draw every day for 30 days and see if I could get that passion back.
the first week was rough and I wasn’t happy with it. It wasn’t until like day 6 or 7 that something turned back on in my brain. Kinda like that skill/passion for creating was always there, had long been turned off, and took a week to reboot. It just clicked and it was a sort of “oh yeah I remember how to do this!” moment.
Now it’s like I draw something, get to the point I’m happy with it, then like 15min later I want to draw something else. Sort of like an addiction.
I’ve also noticed that ideas are coming easier to me now and not just for art. but say like Ideas for apps or websites or what have you (I’m a developer in my day job) I just feel creative again overall. and frankly it also makes me feel young again.
I wanted to be creative again and I missed it. I mean I’m going to be 42 next week and I realized I hadn’t drawn or painted anything in like 20 years. Life just got busy and took that away from me. I used to love drawing, I used to love making webcomics or little zines for friends and what have you. I just wanted a hobby again that didn’t involve gaming or anything like that.
So I just started trying again and didn’t like what I was making. I thought “I swore I was better than this” so I decided to pick up a cheap Wacom One (the small basic one) and challenge myself to draw every day for 30 days and see if I could get that passion back.
the first week was rough and I wasn’t happy with it. It wasn’t until like day 6 or 7 that something turned back on in my brain. Kinda like that skill/passion for creating was always there, had long been turned off, and took a week to reboot. It just clicked and it was a sort of “oh yeah I remember how to do this!” moment.
Now it’s like I draw something, get to the point I’m happy with it, then like 15min later I want to draw something else. Sort of like an addiction.
I’ve also noticed that ideas are coming easier to me now and not just for art. but say like Ideas for apps or websites or what have you (I’m a developer in my day job) I just feel creative again overall. and frankly it also makes me feel young again.